Pope Leo's first encyclicalMichael R. Heinlein
It can be easy for Catholics to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Sometimes we can lose sight of the bigger global picture, get distracted from what matters most for humanity, even give into the ...
Scripture Reflection for June 7, 2026, Solemnity of Corpus ChristiDeacon Greg Kandra
Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 1 Cor 10:16-17 Jn 6:51-58 This is it. This Sunday marks the last of the big springtime Sunday feasts -- a final punctuation mark after the Easter ...
In praise of fathersGreg Erlandson
There is a lot of handwringing going on about the state of manhood these days. Maybe this Father's Day, we can focus on what's good about men who are fathers. It's an uphill slog, I know. It seems ...
Graduation timeMichael Reardon
Three minutes. That was the time separating two of my children crossing graduation stages -- the only complication being that those three minutes were separated by 730 miles. For families with children ...
The blessing of the cornerstone at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, RoxburyViolet Hurst
May 28 marked 150 years since the blessing of the cornerstone of one of Boston's great churches, the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The origins of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known ...
The ethics of suicide and organ donationFather Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Physician-assisted suicide involves asking a medical professional to write a prescription for a toxic drug so that a patient can ingest it and bring his or her own life to an end. The practice sadly appears ...
For freedom Christ has set us freeKen Craycraft
Writing to the church at the ancient city of Galatia (in modern Turkey), St. Paul the Apostle declared, "For Freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of ...
Scripture Reflection for May 24, 2026, Pentecost SundayDeacon Greg Kandra
Acts 2:1-11 Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 Jn 20:19-23 Did you hear that? Right about now, in a world torn apart by war and division and unrest in so many places, we need to ...
The rise and fall of the Guild of St. ApolloniaSavannah Miller
The Guild of St. Apollonia was established on March 20, 1920, by 12 Catholic dentists in the Archdiocese of Boston. It was the first guild of Catholic dentists in the U.S., and was founded "to create ...
Celebrating 50 years of the permanent diaconate in BostonRebecca Maitland
Fifty years ago this month, on May 22, 1976, 36 men, along with their wives and families, joined Cardinal Humberto Medeiros and other clergy at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for a momentous day. These ...
